About Us
Tim Brennan’s petition asks the UK Government to negotiate a free cultural work permit that gives touring professionals visa free travel throughout the 27 EU states for music touring professionals, bands, musicians, artists, TV and sports celebrities that tour the EU to perform shows and events and to secure a Carnet exception for touring equipment. Very clearly Tim’s petition chimed a chord with the public and the many UK artists and professionals who tour in the cities and nations across Europe, with over 280,000 signatures that continues to rise. On the back of Tim’s petition, the Carry on Touring campaign was established to keep the pressure on Government to go back to the negotiating table.
Carry on Touring is the umbrella campaign which all those who tour – and rely on touring - can support and sit under. It brings together voices from across the touring, cultural and creative industries sectors to secure cross-party support for Tim Brennan’s petition and campaign for a return of free EU movement for all touring artists and professionals. The strength of this campaign is that it is inclusive reaching across the sector, industry and political parties. This public facing campaign brings a spectrum of voices together to demonstrate its diversity and demographic.
Carry On Touring
Industry Supporters
The #CarryOnTouring industry supporters are companies and suppliers of the various sectors of the creative touring industry who are showing their support of the campaign.
If you would like to join us & show your support please contact us or follow @TimmoWorldWide on Twitter and send him a DM.
Or send us an email using the contact link below.
Our Industry Supporters include: Adlib - Entec Sound & Light - FanCircles - Fair Ticketing Alliance - Goldblatts - Hawthorn - KB Event - Lambco Lighting - Lite Alternative - Motionhouse - Ooosh! Tours Ltd - Spartan Crew - Tonic Rider - Touring Solutions - Transition Video - Vans For Bands Ltd - Video Design
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Lite Alternative
A Creative Lighting Rental Company
Touring, Corporate & Theatre
Since 1990
Established in 1990, Lite Alternative have provided lighting and rigging for a broad range of artists. Current clients include Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys, Ellie Goulding, Coldplay and Foals
From small gigs to stadium concerts, we provide crew and equipment globally. A vast amount of this being within Europe.
#CarryOnTouring has Lite Alternative’s full support. Action is needed to ensure our touring crews can carry on providing a level of service that both our freelance family and staff have worked extremely hard to get to.
Andy Scott | Operations Manager
Email: andy@lite-alt.com
Tel: 01254 279 654
Entec Sound & Light
Specialising in equipment rental, sales and installation.
Bringing Events To
Life Since 1968
Entec Sound & Light
TPi Award Winners
2003 TPi Outstanding Contribution Award Winner
2006 Favourite Audio Rental Company
2017 TPi Outstanding Contribution Award Winner
We have a depth of experience in supporting unique events that span the globe and are proud to combine high standards of excellence with a friendly approach.
We offer a quality of service at all levels and, with practical and achievable solutions tailored for projects of all sizes, in all places, we remain committed to delivering the best results every time.We are incredibly proud of the technicians and freelancers that represent us on all our events
We pledge our support for #carryontouring to represent our industry, clients, technicians, and freelancers.
Noreen O’Riordan | Managing Director / Head of Lighting
Email: sales@entecLIVE.com
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8842 4004
Touring Solutions
Production Management Services
Planning, Logistics, Equipment & Personnel
Since 2003
Touring Solutions provides Production Management Services (Planning, Logistics, Equipment & Personnel) for live concerts and sporting events, working with a range of national and international artists worldwide.
The majority of our clients, regardless of where they come from, tour within Europe and represent 65% of our annual business.
We support this campaign because we believe the restrictions on free movement for Events Personnel is damaging to our businesses, our economy, our culture and our country as a whole. With so much to lose we cannot remain silent!
Paul Southernwood | Production Manager
Email: paul@touringsolutions.com
Tel: 03333 446263
Vans For Bands Ltd
Passenger Transport Supplier
Supplying Bespoke Splitters & Nightliners
Since 2006
Vans For Bands Ltd is the largest passenger transport supplier for the live music industry in the UK, servicing around 100 tours per month & moving up to 10,000 artists and crew every year. With the largest fleet of bespoke 9 seat splitter vans in Europe & a growing fleet of luxury nightliners we are industry leaders.
We fully support the Carry On Touring campaign for a cultural passport for touring personnel because we believe this is vital for the health of the UK's live music touring ecosystem, a sector which is one of the UK's great success stories and which is gravely threatened by Brexit.
Tarrant Anderson | Company Director
Email: tarrant@vansforbands.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1865 670 600
Video Design
Independent Video Service Provider
Touring Hardware & System Specialists
Since 2015
Video Design consistently delivers the best touring hardware and system specialists the world of visual presentation demands. From Stormzy to ELO, live events are our beating heart.
This is only made possible by the incredible pool of talent the industry sustains. A truly international phenomenon, any given touring crew of the last twenty years has typically been a United Nations of personalities; people that Producers, Creatives and Managers know can deliver the best for their artists and shows.
A world without boundaries, especially in Europe - frequently the cradle of innovation in the performing arts - is the only way such a fertile and productive ecosystem of talent can operate to its full potential and for the benefit of everyone.
Alex Leinster | Managing Director
Email: info@video-design.co.uk
Tel: +44 1234 924340
Adlib Audio Ltd
Sound, Lighting, Video, Rigging Equipment
& Technicians for Major Events Across The Globe
Since 1984
Adlib Audio was founded in 1984 and has grown into an organisation that delivers Sound, Lighting, Video and Rigging equipment along with the technicians for major events across the globe. Adlib’s services range from large festivals, to major European arena/stadium touring through to incredibly complex Corporate events.
Adlib are incredibly proud of their 150+ team and 200 free-lancers that deliver these works to the client and with the help of #carryontouring we hope to continue providing these services long into the future.
Consequently, we are indebted to the efforts of the #carryontouring team and fully back their campaign in the fight to protect our businesses and technicians”
Andy Dockerty | MD
Email: enquiries@adlib.co.uk
Tel: +44 151 498 5214
KB Event
Specialist Transport Solutions
Music - Live Event - Corporate
Since 1992
KB Event has been supplying specialist transport solutions to the music, live event, corporate and entertainment industries since 1992.
The Brexit deal secured by the Government has been catastrophic for an industry that was worth £70bn (figure via PSA) to the UK economy pre-COVID. The red-tape that artists and their touring crew now have to navigate in terms of visas and permits has not only increased the financial and logistical burden of touring parties, but puts the future of these cultural events at enormous risk.
Stuart McPherson | Managing Director
Email: Stuartm@kbevent.com
Tel: 01773-811136
Goldblatts
Accounting Services, Auditing,
Taxation & Corporate Finance
Since 1956
Goldblatts is a long-established firm of accountants, business advisors and registered auditors with four offices located throughout London and the South East. Our friendly team draws on years of experience to provide forward-looking advice to owner-managed businesses and large UK corporations as well as partnerships and sole traders.
We act for a large number of companies in the live event industry and have seen first hand the devastation that Covid 19 has caused to the sector, the post Brexit arrangements in their current form are just as much a threat to the survival of the industry.
We are proud to support #carryontouring to represent our industry, clients, technicians, and freelancers.
Matthew Donovan | Senior Accountant
Tel: 020 7812 0900
Fair Ticketing Alliance
The campaign for fans/consumers/traders.
A voice for responsible secondary ticketing.
Since 2018
The campaign for fans/consumers/traders that wanted a voice for responsible secondary ticketing. This involves getting and maintaining greater legal and regulatory clarity, getting secondary websites to conform fully with the law and for responsible, licensed operators to have the right to buy and re-sell tickets whilst protecting consumer interests.
We fully support the Carry On Touring campaign to re-establish the free movement of artists touring across Europe. It is vital for this to happen, as without it a knock on effect is felt by venues, ticket sellers, event organisers and promoters. The whole ticketing eco system along with the music industry cannot sustain this impact and needs as much flexibility and funding as possible in these times to recover from Coronavirus
Stephen Lee | President
Email: enquiries@fairticketing.co.uk
Tel:
Tonic Rider
Promoting good mental health in the music industry
Registered charity in England & Wales (1189913)
Tonic Rider is a registered charity promoting good mental health in the music industry via a programme of taught workshops, support groups and training courses provided for free to all music professionals and organisations, both remotely and at venues.
We support the Carry On Touring campaign because restrictions on touring in the EU not only threaten the livelihoods of music professionals, but pose a significant risk to their mental health.
Steph Langan | CEO
Email:tonicrider@tonicmusic.co.uk
Twitter: @tonicrideruk
Transition Video
Full Service Video Rental
LED screens, video projection, camera packages and media servers
Transition Video is a full service video rental specialist providing LED screens, video projection, camera packages and media servers for concert touring, festivals, television and across the event industry. Launched in 2015, it’s a company of internationally experienced operators providing full video support for clients such as, Liam Gallagher, Jamiroquai, Mariah Carey, Glastonbury and the film and television sector.
Transition Video fully supports the ‘Carry On Touring’ campaign which represents our industry, clients and crew. Freedom to operate within the EU without unnecessary restrictions is essential for our industry to get back to work!
Rhodri Shaw | Founder & Director
Email: info@transitionvideo.com
Tel: +441296 312 333
Spartan Crew
London Based Crewing Company Suppling Crew to
Corporate, Entertainment, Sport & Exhibitions
SInce 2017
Spartan Crew are a London based crewing company formed in 2017 by 2 ex touring sound engineers Paz Brennan and Ciaran Boylan.
We supply crew to corporate, entertainment, sport, exhibitions with our values focused on H&S and crew welfare.
We feel the current situation with EU Touring post Brexit is a huge backwards step and will be hugely damaging to the UK entertainment industry along with companies and livelihoods that work in it.
Paz Brennan | Director
Email: info@spartancrew.co.uk
Tel: 0208 692 3522
Hawthorn
Supplying
Lighting | Sound | Video
Rigging | Staging | Drapes
Since 1990
Hawthorn (trading for over 30 years) works across many countries, it is essential that there is relative ease of movement for equipment and especially staff. We created over 200 full time jobs in the UK, Hawthorn is now part of encore employing over 400 in the UK and 14,000 full time staff across the world.
Whilst proportionally music and theatre touring is a small part of the business it is still significant, additionally commercial functions, roadshows, seminars requires staff to travel with the event both for consistency and skill set.
If UK staff can’t travel between multiple EU countries these rolls will migrate into EU based jobs travelling to the UK when required, so loosing these jobs to the UK workforce and the whole technical support and equipment rental.
Martin Hawthorn
Motionhouse
Touring Theatre Productions
PUSHING MOVEMENT TO ITS LIMITS
SINCE 1988
Pioneers of outdoor dance, Motionhouse takes world-class dance-circus to audiences in a range of settings; from full-length touring theatre productions, extraordinary outdoor events and spectacles, to outdoor work at festivals or in the street, in the heart of people’s communities, reaching children, young people and families, free of charge.
We also offer a vibrant programme of education and training activities for all ages, including classes, post-show discussions, workshops in schools and a range of professional development opportunities. We are supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
Jane Bailey | Communications and Development Director
Email: info@motionhouse.co.uk
Tel: + 44 (0)1926 887052
FanCircles
Fan Club Platforms For Artists
Tools to Build A Fan Community
Since
FanCircles.com provides fan club platforms for artists from Paloma Faith, Robbie Williams through to The Levellers, Skindred and 40+ more. With social media so splintered and music streaming platforms paying too little to live off we give artists one place to call "Home" online gathering fans together in to a community you can control and with the ability to live stream, share music, posts and more.
Premium features allow artists to earn £100k from 1000-2000 fans.
When touring begins again, we provide the platform for artists to reach ticket buying fans.
Kevin Brown | CEO
Email: kevin@fancircles.com
Tel: 0845 544 4004
Lambco Lighting
Entertainment Lighting Company
Supplying Equipment & Technicians
Since 2005
From garden parties, pubs and clubs, fringe venues, theatres all the way up to ice-shows and international arena tours.
LAMBCO Lighting is committed to providing high quality production solutions to support live events around the World. With our team of experienced and dedicated specialists we have extensively worked in a broad spectrum of locations that includes galleries, cafes, museums, theatres, opera houses, arenas, vans, gardens and exhibition halls. It is absolutely vital that we can continue our work without restrictions and share our culture and designs with our continental neighbours.
We fully support the Carry On Touring Campaign
Richard Lambert | Director
Email: richardlambertw9@hotmail.com
Tel: 07917 221639
Ooosh! Tours Ltd
High-End Rehearsal Rooms, Backline & Self-Drive Splitter Vans
To The Creative Industries
Since 2008
Ooosh! Tours Ltd supplies high-end rehearsal rooms, backline and self-drive splitter vans to the creative industries.
We fully support the Carry On Touring campaign. The ability to easily and cost-effectively tour Europe is the beating heart of the UK's creative industries, and is what has allowed the sector to thrive over the last four decades. Placing financial and administrative barriers in the way of this opportunity serves no good purpose and only devalues the UK as a creative hub.
Jon Wood | Company Director
Email: info@oooshtours.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1273 911382